HPV vaccines: Why can't Perry just say it was the right thing to do?

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Thursday September 15, 2011 · 8:23 AM PDT

2011/09/15 · 08:23

HPV vaccines will save lives... and it's not just women's lives, and it's not just sexually active people's lives. HPV-linked cancers strike men and women and it's not just cervical cancer, although that certainly is a very prevalent HPV-linked cancer that could be greatly reduced by widespread use of the HPV vaccine. I have a personal stake in this, as I just spent all of this just-passed summer getting radiation treatment for throat cancer caused by HPV-induced papilloma growth on my vocal cords, making me part of a growing contingent of men with HPV-linked throat cancers (e.g. stories like this one). It's a sad statement on the world that a decision to prevent loss of life can be turned into what looks like the most potent weapon against a man with otherwise insane policies, simply because Republican voters fear sex.

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Tuesday March 01, 2011 · 1:05 PM PST

2011/03/01 · 13:05

After all the press Scott Walker has gotten for the protests in Wisconsin, the news I saw seemed to suggest many other prominent Republicans were backing off from such obvious union-busting. For example, over at Firedoglake, they had this article suggesting that Rick Scott would not be joining Walker in trying to break public employee unions.

Not so fast! Florida's legislature is quite happy to bash unions with the best of them, thank you very much... More below the fold...

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HPV vaccines: Why can't Perry just say it was the right thing to do?

Florida legislature still happy to go after unions